Coenheads seem to run 50% with good to great films, and that's not bad in today's Hollywood - 30 Years of Coens

Ironic Scene from "Miller's Crossing"

Among my favorite Coen Brother's Movies: "No Country for Old Men", "Fargo" and "Miller's Crossing."

30 Years of Coens: True Grit - The Atlantic

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CHRISTOPHER ORRSEP 26 2014,

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Coen brothers' debut, Blood Simple, I’m re-watching their 16 feature films and attempting to jot down observations on one per day, in order of their release. For a fuller explanation of what I’m doing and why, see my first entry, on Blood Simple. (Here, too, are my entries onRaising Arizona, Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo,The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn’t There,Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, and A Serious Man. The landing page for the whole series is here.)

Notes on True Grit  (2010)

• Several readers of my entry on No Country for Old Men made the case that the film was less a straightforward Coens picture than a de facto collaboration between the brothers and Cormac McCarthy, who wrote the novel on which it was based. And it’s true to a certain extent: The Coens’ previous “adaptations” had been at best loose homages to Homer, Hammett, Chandler, Sturges, et al., in contrast to No Country, which was a generally faithful rendering of McCarthy’s original. That said, their respective artistic visions proved so deeply congruent that the movie has always felt entirely “Coens” to me; McCarthy’s template seemed to unfetter the brothers’ gift, not to muddy it. The same is not quite true of True Grit, another handsome, well-wrought adaptation—in this case, of the 1968 Western by Charles Portis—but one in which novelist and filmmakers seem less in sync. (My original review is here.)

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